Plumareola van Eecke, 1920

Volynkin, Anton V., Černý, Karel & Huang, Si-Yao, 2025, On the generic assignment of the taxa placed in the Oriental footman-moth genus Teulisna with the description of three new genera, one subgenus and eighteen new species, Ecologica Montenegrina 88, pp. 104-163 : 106

Genus Plumareola van Eecke, 1920

Plumareola van Eecke, 1920 , Zoologische mededeelingen, 5: 137 (Type species: Plumareola lineola van Eecke, 1920 , by monotypy).

Diagnosis. Species of the genus ( Figs 1, 2 ) are sexually dimorphic with females externally similar to Tufteulisna gen. n., Bitecta and Macotasa Moore, 1878 . Males of Plumareola are characterised by the abdomen bearing bristles of long androconial scales on each segment, the rounded forewing apex and tornus, and the modified forewing cell bearing a cluster of androconial scales and having a comma-shaped transverse fold. The male genital capsule of Plumareola ( Fig. 92 ) is characterised by the massive posteriorly directed lateral lobes of the juxta, which is herein considered as an autapomorphic feature of the genus. Additionally, Plumareola differs from other similar genera by the short valva (in proportion to the tegumen-vinculum complex) with a proximally narrow sacculus. The vesica of Plumareola is short and narrow and bears a broad cluster of spines. In the female genitalia of Plumareola ( Fig. 145 ), the corpus bursae is extremely elongate and narrow, which is also unique among the Teulisna sensu lato.

Note. The Malayan P. nigrisquama ( Bucsek, 2012) , comb. n. was originally described in Teulisna and is closely related to the type species of the genus Plumareola described from Java Island. The genus is under revision by Volynkin & Černý (in prep.).

Figures

Figures 1–16. Adults of Lithosiina spp. Depositories of the specimens: 1–4, 11 and 12 in MWM/ZSM; 5–10, 13– 16 in CKC.

Figures 92–95. Male genitalia of Lithosiina spp. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 92 and 93 in MWM/ZSM; 94 in CKC; 95 in NHMUK.

Figures 145–148. Female genitalia of Lithosiina spp. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 145 and 146 in MWM/ZSM; 147 and 148 in CKC.